Born on January 5th, 1981, Farhan Khan comes from a lineage of great musicians. He has been brought up totally under the tutelage of his father, Ustad Rais Khan, an exponent of the Mewat Gharana Baaj. He was put under rigorous training of both the sitar and the surbahar, or bass sitar, by his father from the tender age of nine. The clarity of Farhan Khan’s taans and his sense of laya at his young age is truly beyond one’s expectations. His style of playing, especially the taans, truly represent the gayaki-ang.

Farhan Khan gave his first public performance at the Nazrul Manch in Calcutta on January 9th, 1991. Aged only ten at that time, he played to the delight of a packed audience, there with his father, and was accompanied on the tabla by the phenomenal Ustad Zakir Hussain. Since then he has been touring extensively with his father throughout the world, and he continues to entertain audiences with his skills wherever he plays.